Resume
Enterprise Web Architect, Accessibility Strategist, and IT Leader.
Key Skills
- Drupal Development (10, 11)
- Pantheon & Acquia Hosting
- Front End & Back End Development
- UX/UI Design
- Responsive/Mobile Design
- Paper & Interactive Prototyping
- HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Work Experience
Web Developer & Accessibility Liaison
Custom Applications & Consulting Services, Information Technology Services (ITS)
University of Virginia | September 2023 — Present
- Enterprise Portfolio Architecture: Manage, maintain, and support a multi-tenant codebase powering an institutional infrastructure of over 300 active University of Virginia websites across Acquia Cloud environments.
- Institutional Accessibility Leadership: Serve as technical lead directing digital accessibility remediation across the 300+ site portfolio to satisfy Department of Justice mandates and WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA standards.
- Centralized Engineering Solutions: Architected and deployed centralized remediation patches (custom Twig templates, CSS, and ES6 JavaScript) that systematically resolved critical accessibility violations across shared base themes.
- Governance & Training: Authored technical compliance documentation and delivered presentations to senior administration and cross-functional developer teams to prevent recurring technical debt and institutional risk.
- Stakeholder Consultation: Partner with university deans, directors, and departmental clients to translate institutional business requirements into secure, accessible, high-performance web applications.
Assistant Director Web Design and Development
Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia
March 2019 — August 2023
At the Batten School, I reported to the Director of Information Technology and play a critical role as technical developer & design lead with the Director of Communications and entire communications team. I managed multiple web projects create dynamic rich experience for visitors of our websites. I partnered with stakeholders throughout the School to identify goals, set measurable objectives, gathered requirements and implement the vision into digital reality. Migrated content from Drupal 7 using automated scripts to Drupal 8 and successfully upgraded Drupal 8 to 9 in Acquia Cloud and Cloud Next.
Technologies used:
- Drupal 7, 8 & 9
- Wordpress
- Acquia Cloud Platform
- Amazon Web Services
- Visual Studio Code
- GIT
- Sass/CSS
- Drush
- Twig Templates
- Drupal 8 Theming
- HTML
- PHP
- JavaScript
- Adobe Creative Suite (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD, Adobe Illustrator)
Web Developer 3
Advancement Communications, University of Virginia
December 2017 — February 2018
Led transition of technology stack from Wordpress to Drupal 8. I developed accessible websites built with Drupal 8, Pantheon, Terminus CLI, CircleCI, Git, Ruby On Rails and Unix. I built database applications and managed the day-to-day relationship with vendors to meet our technical requirements.
- Drupal 8
- Pantheon
- GIT
- Sass/CSS
- Drush
- Twig Templates
- Drupal 8 Theming
- HTML
- PHP
- JavaScript
- Adobe Creative Suite (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD, Adobe Illustrator)
- Wordpress
Lead Organizer and Women TechMakers Ambassador for the Mid-Atlantic Region, USA
Google Developer Group - Central Virginia
Janurary 2015 — Present
Work with ongoing support from Google to provide technical training to UVA Faculty/Staff/Students as well as the local greater community on emerging Google technologies.
Web Developer 3 & UX/UI Designer
University of Virginia Library
March 2011 — December 2017
I worked as a UX Designer and Web Developer for the UX Team and Library Communications. I served as a liaison for the UX research arm of our team to translate user research into personas, wireframes, mock-ups and interactive prototypes to be tested on users and refined through a user led design process. I collaborated with the technical arm of our team to further develop and design in an agile environment while continuing to work with the UX researchers to test and iterate web applications before they were pushed to production. I built websites using Wordpress and Jekyll, Git, Ruby On Rails, HTML, CSS & JavaScript. I also managed, designed, developed and maintain various UVA Library websites built with Wordpress, Jekyll, Drupal 8, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript using Headless CMS architecture.
- Drupal 8
- Pantheon
- GIT
- Sass/CSS
- Drush
- Twig Templates
- Drupal 8 Theming
- HTML
- PHP
- JavaScript
- Adobe Creative Suite (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD, Adobe Illustrator)
- Wordpress
- Jekyll
Web Developer 2
Web Communications, University of Virginia
August 2010 — March 2011
Managed, designed, developed and maintained the main College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences website, Campaign for the College fundraising website, and various A&S department websites. I wrote HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP as well as built themes in Wordpress.
Web Developer 2
College & Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, University of Virginia
March 2008 — July 2010
Managed, designed, developed and maintained the main College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences website, Campaign for the College fundraising website, and various A&S department websites with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. I practiced user experience design processes, user testing, and user interface design. I also maintained a Wordpress blog for the Dean.
Certifications
- Acquia Certification
- January 2014 - User Experience Design - Career Foundry
- December 2009 - PHP - Piedmont Virginia Community College
Awards & Recognition
Three Reward and Recognition Rewards at U.Va. Library for the creation of APTrust website, U.Va. Library content management system, and project management for Research Data Services website. Winner of Google Glass Hackathon - New York City, “Active” category, Arts & Sciences Excellence Achievement Award, uWeb Steering Committee 2015 – 2016.
Software & Languages
Drupal, Wordpress, Jekyll, Adobe Creative Suite, HTML 5, CSS 3, SASS, JavaScript, PHP, Unix, AppsScript, QuestionPro, Git, Unix
Speaker
edUi, C-Ville Mini Maker Faire, U.Va. Library, Jefferson-Madison Regional Library, Teaching with Technology Fair, U.Va. Library 2014-1015.
Education
- Master of Science in the Management of Information Technology (MSMIT)
McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia | August 2026 - Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) – Multimedia & Web Design
The Art Institute of Washington - Associate in Specialized Technology (AST) – Multimedia
The Art Institute of Philadelphia